Philip A. Daniels, in The World Today (Aug.-Sept. 19871, The Royal In-stitute of International Affairs, 10 St. James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE, United Kingdom.
When the Italian Communist Party (PCI) won 34.4 percent of the national vote in 1976, its highest percentage since the founding of the post-World War I1 republic in 1946, the Communists seemed on the verge of full participation in government. Since that peak, however, the party's trade union support has weakened, and fewer young people are...